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[color=aba000][h3][center]Hua Mulan, Forest Area[/center][/h3][/color]
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Trading a blow for blow isn't really optimal for a fighter such Rider. She has to use her opponent's strengths and turn it against them. It's like the basic principle of martial arts after all right?

Before anything resolves, for mere fracture of a second, Rider is able to analyze the situation of her opponents attack. 

A quick recap of what is gonna happened, and will happen.

The knee to the gut is imminent and at the back and there's an entire arm waiting to constrict me.

[i]*Sigh* how did I get myself tangled in this predicament? Stupid.. Stupid... Stupid... My ancestors and my fellow soldiers must be rolling in their graves right about now. Can't believe this bastard has natural combat knowledge base his movements and reactions, my enemy's brutish fighting style is somewhat close to a grappler or a brawler type I would say? can't tell.. but right now there are important matter to take care off, like not getting crush driving force of this juggernaut[/i]. She shakes her head and focused on situation.

Rider's next move was set. This is turning into a test of her endurance and combat knowhow in the most dangerous close-quarter combat of her life. 

The sequence of action now follows as Rider executes it with precision.

The interlock between the two warriors was rather too close for comfort. You can literally cut a knife between the two fighters butting heads with one another.

Rider's explosive elbow strike connects, all Rider has to do is slightly shift her trajectory towards her moving opponent within this point blank range.

As for kneeing Rider for an exchanging blow, Lifting it in this situation means you have to give up most of your center. Luckily for Rider, Her stance was firmly rooted and able to respond while maintaining her balance with a knee of her own. 

Rider retort with a shin for a knee. 

She has to take this bullet or else it's mush midriff for the heroine. Rider's enchanted armor around her leg area should be able to block and withstand the incoming blow.

It collided, hard, like really hard.

The sound of metal meeting the bare skin of her opponent thuds and echoes within the radius of the forest with such force.

The heroine grunted in pain and felt some of her bones shattering from high impact of her opponent's inhuman strength the moment it struck. If it wasn't for her armor it could be much worst, and the word 'worst' is an understatement from the predicament she is in.

Now for the separation, Before this brute overpowers her while their legs was caught in a crosslock, Rider sucks up the pain and harness an explosive attack on her fist, converting her previous elbow strike into a palm strike with no wasted movement. Rider's motion was so fluid and such thing of beauty its like you are watching a classic kung-fu movie. 

With a swift [b]palm push strike[/b] and little space to respond, She strikes her opponent's rib cage based on the angle they are in right now. With that hit, A Qi explosion follows, She pushes herself off her opponent, propelling herself backwards from the force right before her foe has the chance to grapples her. This technique normally pushes back the enemy with the lethal strike of your palm, but in this case, it's hard to do that if your foe is sturdy as a rock and just won't budge. So instead of using it offensively, Rider goes for the defensive effect of this art.

Rider controls her landing from the force and center herself once again. The Heroine performs a stance, fist forward, bounces up and down like video game character, shaking loose the tremendous pain of her broken leg and seemingly asking for more. 

was she enjoying this?